to examine Malawi’scif/fobratio to evaluate these findings and statements made by the African Development Report (2004). Figure 9 illustrates Malawi’scif/fobratio ... as a proportion of total imports for the period 1980-2002. Evidently, Malawi’scif/fobratios ... FIGURE 9. MALAWI’SCIF/FOBRATIOS, 1980-2000 1989 1990 1991 1992 CIF/FOBRATIO Source: own calculations using International Financial Statistics data in TIPS, 2005.

current value of exports (fob) or of imports (cif) converted to dollars and expressed as a percentage of the average for the base year (1980). the ratio of the export (or import ... Source: Reserve Bank of Malawi, Financial and Economic Review (1998). Source ... Table 4.4 Malawi: Export Concentration and Diversification Indices Indicator No. of Commodities Exported Diversification index Concentration index Source: UNCTAD: Handbook of International Trade and Development Statistics, 1994, 1995.